Travelling the continent’s hackerspaces over the years, I have visited quite a few spaces located in university towns. They share a depressingly common theme, of a community hackerspace full of former ...

Tog, Dublin’s hackerspace, started in 2009. Since then, it has created an incredible community of hackers and builders who are always finding ways to solve problems. Maker and hackerspaces serve a ...

A Fresno nonprofit is asking for the community’s continued help fundraising to make permanent fixes to their roof and ceiling. Root Access Hackerspace ...

The origins of Brooklyn’s latest well-funded startup are not what you’d expect. Founder Will Canine came to New York to participate in the anti-capitalist protest Occupy Wall Street. He got the idea ...

You just can’t please some people. Take a 3D-printer disguised as a condiment dispenser to a public event and next thing you know people actually expect you to build a 3D-condiment dispenser for the ...

Our perception of hackers is that they greatly prefer up-to-the-nanosecond technology over the sort of gadgetry used by previous generations. But that doesn’t mean they reject any methodology more ...

Last spring the Memorial Union at the University of Maine welcomed a new facility to its first floor. While walking around campus, you may have noticed many signs announcing a new opportunity and ...

I had the good fortune to be able to attend Maker Faire North Carolina this weekend in Raleigh, N.C. Maker Faires are amazing events that bring together representatives from all parts of the Maker ...

A group that helps people make their own technology is working to rid the word "hacker" of negative connotations. The Connected Community HackerSpace (CCHS) is a not-for-profit workshop that provides ...

A new breed of tech-savvy people from 10Bitworks, San Antonio's first hackerspace community, is giving South San Antonio a hands-on approach to high-tech ideas. 10Bitworks, the new haven for tech ...